he picture frame has come a long way since the last post. I now have the wooden frame for it built and almost done but we will come back to that in a minute. Since the last update I have completely remade some of the electronics. The only reason I did this is because I fried 2 different wireless receivers for my button inputs and since I wanted to add a few more items I decided to basically start from scratch. Beyond the remote control for input I added the following items
- On board power switch that turns the monitor on and off
- The switch has a LED in it which will tell you the status of the screen
- Input for monitoring status of screen
- Wire the button in parallel with the original monitor button
- Wire the button in parallel with the remote button that tells the pi to turn the screen on or off
- Wire the button to a new input
I liked the hardware approach better than the software approach so that took off one option. To keep the number of wires coming off my new board to the bare minimum I decided to wire the switch in parallel with the wireless receiver. The power button I used is from adafruit and can be found here
For more detail: Raspberry Pi Picture Frame
